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We have all been hearing about, feeling the effects of, and coming to terms with various crises: Covid-19, climate change, political polarization, etc. Taimur would argue however that there is deep crisis of despair gestating underneath the veil of political disagreements & policy debates. This is the result of a growing sense of uncertainty creeping into spaces that we were “sure of”; sensory and emotional overloads resulting from surface-level, dopamine/cortisol inducing content that triggers more than explains; and the understandable difficulty in accepting that maybe there is a fair amount of “fictitious capital” that upholds our current way of life. Taimur thesis is that the only way counter this despair is to make sense of the present, and hence make more informed and active
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We have all been hearing about, feeling the effects of, and coming to terms with various crises: Covid-19, climate change, political polarization, etc. Taimur would argue however that there is deep crisis of despair gestating underneath the veil of political disagreements & policy debates. This is the result of a growing sense of uncertainty creeping into spaces that we were “sure of”; sensory and emotional overloads resulting from surface-level, dopamine/cortisol inducing content that triggers more than explains; and the understandable difficulty in accepting that maybe there is a fair amount of “fictitious capital” that upholds our current way of life. Taimur thesis is that the only way counter this despair is to make sense of the present, and hence make more informed and active
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| We have all been hearing about, feeling the effects of, and coming to terms with various crises: Covid-19, climate change, political polarization, etc. Taimur would argue however that there is deep crisis of despair gestating underneath the veil of political disagreements & policy debates. This is the result of a growing sense of uncertainty creeping into spaces that we were “sure of”; sensory and emotional overloads resulting from surface-level, dopamine/cortisol inducing content that triggers more than explains; and the understandable difficulty in accepting that maybe there is a fair amount of “fictitious capital” that upholds our current way of life. Taimur thesis is that the only way counter this despair is to make sense of the present, and hence make more informed and active choices about the future, by better understanding the current system. Taimus's Substack: https://fictitiouscapital.substack.com/ |